Active Experimentation and Computational Reflection for Design and Testing of Cyber-Physical Systems.

摘要: Cyber-physical systems are being deployed in a wide variety of applications, creating highly-capable infrastructure networked ``smart'' that utilize coordinated computational and physical resources to perform complicated tasks either autonomously or cooperation with humans. The design testing these using current methods, while time-consuming costly, is not necessarily sufficient guarantee appropriate trustworthy behavior, especially under unanticipated operational conditions. Biological offer possible examples strategies for autonomous self-improvement, which we explore one: active experimentation. combined use experimentation driven by internal processes the system itself reflection (examining modifying behavior structure during operation) proposed as an approach developing adaptable complex systems. Examples provided implementation approaches our CARS testbed. potentialfor applying improve performance trustworthyness mission-critical explored. 1 Topcy House Consulting, Thousand Oaks CA, U.S.A. bellmanhome@yahoo.com 2 California State Polytechnic University Pomona, CA 91768, prnelson@csupomona.edu 3 topcycal@gmail.com